cosmological arguement

The cosmological argument is basically an argument about
causation. Its major exponent was Thomas Aquinas though Gotfried
Leibniz also put forward a simplified version of Aquinas's cosmological
argument. The major critics of the argument have included David
Hume and Bertrand Russell who question the basic premise that the
argument works from.

Aquinas in his Summa Theologicae puts forward five ways to know
of the existence of God. The first three of these now famous ways are
the basis of the cosmological argument. The first way involves the
notion of change. According to Aquinas, some things are changing, and
things cannot change themselves, they depend on something operative
to change them. In other words, everything must have a cause to make
it what it is. However, there cannot be an infinite series of causes as for
things to undergo change, there must be a first cause which is itself not
caused by anything. That first-mover according to Aquinas is what we...